Mahlab

Mahlab: Australia's leading search firm for legal professionals.

With more than 50 years behind us, our deep expertise, unrivalled connections and demonstrated commitment to our values make us the trusted advisors to both lawyers and clients.

We were founded by pre-eminent business woman, Eve Mahlab AO in 1968. A lawyer with three young children, keen to get back to the workforce but limited by opportunity, Eve set about changing the status quo.

The creation of Mahlab was transformational for lawyers seeking rewarding, career-defining roles and for organisations in search of the best talent. We pioneered flexibility and diversity and inclusion before the words were even part of the business vernacular.

Today, we are known to provide the best career opportunities to all lawyers, and excellent talent to clients in private practice, the corporate sphere, financial institutions, not-for-profits, in Australia and internationally, as well as in government at all levels.

Being privately owned by directors who work in the business allows us extraordinary agility and great freedom to constantly evolve and innovate.

For fifty years we have continued to meet the changing needs of the environment. We have expanded our reach internationally, extended into corporate, and expanded our methods to include search.

We aren’t driven by quarterly metrics, only the desire to build long-term relationships and create lasting positive change for clients and candidates.

Our company values are ethics, professionalism and respect. They underpin everything we do and guide our interactions with everyone we come into contact with, including clients, candidates, staff and suppliers.

A team of lawyers, for lawyers
We are all lawyers ourselves and possess the skills you might expect: we have strong analytical and evaluative capabilities, we think strategically and exercise good judgement, and we are creative in our problem-solving.

In addition, we have undergone rigorous training to become legal search specialists, so that above all, we know what is required of a role and how to identify, target and attract the right person to do it justice.

What keeps us going
The satisfaction we feel is immense when we not only add value to the legal sector by finding the right lawyers for clients, but also enhance people’s careers by finding the right roles for them.